Chapter 14: The Returning Hero
The hero who returned from the fourteenth chapter of the first freshman
C.E.702/15
Originally, a space near Junius 7, the beautiful starry sky of the past no longer exists, and the universe is full of wreckage of warships and MS, like a ghostly dead field.
A team of cleaning boats belonging to PLANT sailed slowly, like hard-working ants carefully cleaning up all kinds of wrecks.
Old Jack is a new human who has been working on the cleaning ship for more than 20 years, he is driving a large cleaning machine to patiently sort out the wreckage of a destroyer, when he finally removed the seriously deformed shell of the destroyer, suddenly shouted as if he had found a new continent: "Come and see, there is a good MS here, the cockpit is not damaged, and the pilot may still be alive." ”
A team of staff hurriedly carried the MS back to the ship, and as soon as it was put down, everyone gathered around in an instant. Old Jack relied on himself to be the oldest one, circled around his "trophies" a few times, touched his chin and said: "This MS is covered with abrasions, many of which are known at a glance to be caused by beam cannons and assault machine guns, it can be seen that it must have gone through a very brutal battle, but there are not many scars in the cockpit, it can be seen that the pilot's level is very high, and he deliberately avoided these places, and finally he should have hid in this destroyed destroyer after the energy was exhausted......"
Before he could continue, the hot-tempered captain Buck slapped him on the head: "Shut up, you idiot, if you have this kung fu chatter, don't hurry up and rescue the pilot, our PLANT fighters are already in short supply, so the pilot who has experienced the big war is the most precious, and it is a great credit to save one." ”
Old Jack muttered a few words, but he clearly didn't have the courage to resist Buck, so he had to take two staff members with a cutter and try to open the badly deformed cockpit canopy.
After about ten minutes, the hatch was finally opened, and a young staff member carefully climbed in, and then a surprised voice came from the cockpit: "Come on, the pilot is still breathing, he is really alive." ”
When the medic carefully escorted the unconscious black-haired pilot away, Buck said to Old Jack, "The computer in the body should not be damaged, you can go in and check his identity, so that I can write a report to the boss." ”
Old Jack was about to complain, but after being glared at by Buck, he reluctantly climbed into the cockpit, but Buck, who knew him, didn't let him go so easily, and stood straight next to him like a god. Who knew that Old Jack didn't move as soon as he entered, Buck waited for a long time and finally couldn't help but turn over and climb in, and then slapped Old Jack on the head again: "Idiot, you died here, don't say a word for a long time." ”
Old Jack covered his sore head and pulled Buck excitedly: "Captain, look at this guy's battle record." Oh my God, is this still human, it's incredible. ”
Old Jack's words aroused Barker's curiosity, and he glanced at the screen, which showed the machine breaking out of the enemy encirclement and hitting two MAs in three consecutive large-angle maneuvers.
"Pretty." Buck couldn't help but let out an exclamation. Although he is not a front-line combatant, he has seen countless excellent pilots in the process of being engaged in logistics work all year round, but there has never been a person who can control the body so easily, and even the best drivers can't do it several times in their lives. And when he continued to read, he realized that the reason why Old Jack was so fascinated was that the wonderful movements just now were not the highest level of this pilot, and in the next battle, every movement of the body was as beautiful as art. The most shocking thing is that after the energy and ammunition of the weapon are exhausted, the driver does not hesitate to pull out a melee weapon such as the MS-M3 heavy chopper and rush up to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy, and before the energy is exhausted, he simply killed nearly 50 MAs, and the whole process is unspeakably tragic.
Buck and Old Jack felt like they were about to burst with blood just by looking at the screen, and they couldn't imagine how the driver had done all of this.
Buck gasped for a few breaths, calmed the boiling blood, and said with palpitations, "Looks like we've picked up a terrible guy." ”
Old Jack nodded approvingly, and glanced at the last line of text on the screen: Leonard von Findlader, Captain of the Seventh Squad of Zaft's MS First Mobile Team.
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When I opened my eyes again, I was really shocked by Old Jack's respect.
I saw this face: the forehead is deep, the cheeks are high, the lips are protruding, and the ears are huge, and the earlobes are shoulder-length, which is simply "individual" to the extreme.
The first thing I said when I saw this face was, "...... Well...... What's going on? Is this time in prehistoric times? Looks like I haven't woken up yet, so I'll sleep a little longer...... Hmmm......"
Even though Old Jack explained again and again after I woke up, I still had a hard time believing that he was a new human, and if it weren't for the large and generous hanging of Zaft's military flag on the wall, I almost thought that I had been captured by the United Earth Army, how could a new human be so ugly.
But Old Jack wasn't angry at my suspicions, probably used to it. Through a day of getting along, I found out that he is actually a very nice person to get along with and very talkative. From the conversation, I know that Old Jack had an accident when he was still an embryo, which resulted in a skeletal deformity, in fact, his original appearance was even more terrifying, and now it is the result of several plastic surgeries. But what I admire is that even under this fate, Old Jack's personality is still very cheerful, and those who are familiar with him will be moved by his deep enthusiasm and have a very pleasant relationship. Under the influence of his optimistic attitude, the gloom in my heart has also diminished a lot.
Anyway, I'm going to spend the next few days on this cleaning boat that is cleaning up the wreckage of the war. Captain Buck told me that he had reported my survival to the Supreme Council, and that Speaker Shjel Klein had decided to receive me, so the clean-up ship was ordered to sail at top speed toward the capital of PLANT.
Of course, the so-called maximum speed is only relative to this cleaning boat. Judging by the fact that it took five hours to arrive here from Junius6 at hand, it would have taken two to three days to return to the capital, and I could have written a detailed report in those two days.